Beautiful beckoning hands

Beautiful hands at the gateway tonight,
Faces all shining with radiant light
Eyes looking down from yon heavenly home,
Beautiful hands they are beckoning "come."

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Beautiful hands, beckoning hands,
Calling the dear ones to heavenly lands
Beautiful hands, beckoning hands,
Beautiful, beautiful, beckoning hands.

Beckoning hands of a mother whose love
Sacrificed life her devotion to prove
Hands of a father to memory dear,
Beckon up higher the waiting ones here.

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Beautiful hands of a little one, see!
Baby voice calling, O mother, for thee
Rosy cheeked darling, the light of the home,
Taken so early is beckoning "come."

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Beckoning hands of a husband, a wife,
Watching and waiting the loved one of life
Hands of a brother, a sister, a friend,
Out from the gateway tonight they extend.

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Brightest and best of that glorious throng,
Center of all and the theme of their song
Jesus, our Savior, the piercèd One stands,
Lovingly calling with beckoning hands.

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